0555 Environmental Protection, Secy
Program Descriptions

30 - SUPPORT PROGRAM

The Secretary for Environmental Protection's primary program objectives are restoring, protecting and enhancing environmental quality, and protecting public health while fostering economic vitality. The Secretary oversees the state's environmental regulatory programs with particular emphasis on ensuring ''cross-media'' coordination, enhancing risk assessment (especially for disadvantaged communities and other sensitive populations), enforcing laws consistently and fairly, and objectively measuring and reporting results.